In the late 1890s the first offshore oil wells in the world ... to donate decommissioned rigs to states as “artificial reefs.” In the following years Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida ...

Are dormant oil rigs in the ... of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. “Much is growing on them, from corals up to marine mammals.” The High Island rig has created two ...

You’ve probably seen hulking offshore oil rigs in places like the Pacific Ocean ... Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas — participate in the National Artificial Reef Plan. Since 1984, more ...

As offshore oil and gas platforms come to the end ... Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas – all have rigs-to-reefs programmes and have converted more than 500 oil and gas platforms into artificial ...

Even Louisiana and Texas are far ahead of California on ... but the bill failed to gain enough momentum for a final vote. Offshore oil rigs could turn into windmills and dive hotels Controversial ...

Researchers in the U.S. have come up with a new method that could potentially predict underwater landslides before they ...

Inside more than a thousand offshore drilling rigs and oil production platforms that dot ... pointing out that some refineries in Louisiana and Texas are reliant on special crudes piped from ...

Of those, 21 people died in the oil and gas extraction industry, which includes offshore oil rigs. Incidents aboard ... Service at the University of Texas, which works with the oil and gas ...

There are 14 offshore rigs operating in the Gulf of Mexico, down from 21 rigs a year ago, according to oil-field services firm Baker Hughes and research firm Enverus. Offshore spending this year ...

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar visited the colossal structure this past week while on a tour of three offshore oil ... Texas-based Noble Drilling Services Inc., which owns the idle rig, said ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Two proposed wind farms off the Texas and Louisiana coasts would join ...